June 30, 1969

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Air Transport

Honolulu Enlarging Airport for Giant Jets

Honolulu International Airport is bracing for the impact of the new Pacific route awards and the advent of the Boeing 747 by implementing initial stages of a master plan designed to turn the facility into a mid-Pacific giant jet terminal. Construction is in progress on two 747 gates that are scheduled for completion by the end of the year, well before Pan American World Airways’ planned introduction of the 747 to the islands in mid-February, 1970.

By Richard G. O’Lone7 min

Public Financing Considered for Mooney

Reading, Pa.-Decision later this summer will determine if American Electronic Laboratories, Inc., will seek public financing in order to push the activities of Mooney Aircraft Corp., its newly purchased subsidiary. Mooney, which filed for bankruptcy proceedings earlier this year (AW&ST Mar. 3, p. 16), was acquired in court-supervised bankruptcy sale by American Electronic, a Colmar, Pa., manufacturer of electronic and avionics devices.

By David A. Brown5 min

Management

U. K. Aerospace Heading for Record Year

London-Britain’s aerospace industry, despite gloomy predictions, is in a healthy state and is heading toward greater strength, Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn told the Society of British Aerospace Companies last week. Speaking at the SBAC annual dinner, Wedgwood Benn took a markedly different approach to a speech made to the same group two years ago, when he warned the industry that the day of the big spender was over, by saying: “. . . Ministers of Aviation ran off with sums of money that made the great train robbers look like schoolboys pinching pennies from a blind man’s tin (AW&ST July 10, 1967, p. 34).

By Herbert J. Coleman5 min

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France Increasing Atc Automation

By Philip J. Klass10 min